Raising the Drawbridge, Lowering the Portcullis

Wednesday

Jun 11, 2014 at 12:30 PM

The only people shocked by Eric Cantor’s primary loss were those who either weren’t paying attention, or who were paying too much attention to mainstream media, or maybe the little voices in the self-important head. I don’t watch or listen to mainstream media–I talk to real people, and its been evident for the past three weeks that Cantor was doomed. Of course, people like Rick, who surround Eric Cantor, pooh pooh my prognostications, which I base on talking to the little people, who don’t give big contributions or who claim that the trumpet has fallen silent.

The Tea Party is not dead–it is being internalized into mainstream American politics, both Republican and Democrat. Those principles, which include fiscal conservatism, social libertarianism and renewed isolationism, are the growing trends in this country. America for Americans. Don’t Police the World. Get our own house in order before we fix the world. Americans are not rejecting global warming, they are rejecting globalism. And at a time when Barry may have to take us back to Iraq, he is going to be seriously against the grain of American public opinion. Cantor would have supported that. America won’t. And the country is also developing a nasty religious provincialism, reflected in Barry’s persecution of muslims and a scary anti semitic thread that ran through the Virginia primary. Eric Cantor happens to be important to me because of his commitment to Israel and the fact that he was poised to be the first Jewish Speaker of the House. So when his opponent spoke of a restoration of Judeo-Christian values, that is code for “out the Jew,” and the folks in Richmond responded.

Why did Cantor ignore the warning signs? Because he was too big to fail, and because his donors watched Fox and listened to people like Rick who had proclaimed that the trumpet had fallen silent. As I said last week on this blog, not silent, but merely reloading.

We are heading into a new American politics and the folks in DC and in the media aren’t listening. This is the wake up call. The movement continues.

The only people shocked by Eric Cantor’s primary loss were those who either weren’t paying attention, or who were paying too much attention to mainstream media, or maybe the little voices in the self-important head. I don’t watch or listen to mainstream media–I talk to real people, and its been evident for the past three weeks that Cantor was doomed. Of course, people like Rick, who surround Eric Cantor, pooh pooh my prognostications, which I base on talking to the little people, who don’t give big contributions or who claim that the trumpet has fallen silent.

The Tea Party is not dead–it is being internalized into mainstream American politics, both Republican and Democrat. Those principles, which include fiscal conservatism, social libertarianism and renewed isolationism, are the growing trends in this country. America for Americans. Don’t Police the World. Get our own house in order before we fix the world. Americans are not rejecting global warming, they are rejecting globalism. And at a time when Barry may have to take us back to Iraq, he is going to be seriously against the grain of American public opinion. Cantor would have supported that. America won’t. And the country is also developing a nasty religious provincialism, reflected in Barry’s persecution of muslims and a scary anti semitic thread that ran through the Virginia primary. Eric Cantor happens to be important to me because of his commitment to Israel and the fact that he was poised to be the first Jewish Speaker of the House. So when his opponent spoke of a restoration of Judeo-Christian values, that is code for “out the Jew,” and the folks in Richmond responded.

Why did Cantor ignore the warning signs? Because he was too big to fail, and because his donors watched Fox and listened to people like Rick who had proclaimed that the trumpet had fallen silent. As I said last week on this blog, not silent, but merely reloading.

We are heading into a new American politics and the folks in DC and in the media aren’t listening. This is the wake up call. The movement continues.

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